[Bf-committers] Wanted; opengl board/driver documentation...

Ton Roosendaal ton at blender.org
Thu May 17 11:14:57 CEST 2007


Hi,

Yep, this is really not a tools problem but a human factor. We need  
someone who likes to put time in it (and not in coding, but in  
managing)... and whatever tools then are needed is something we can  
realize relatively easily.

-Ton-


On 17 May, 2007, at 2:18, Tom M wrote:

> I'd say just use the opengl bug tracker - can it have a spot for text
> entry?  Maintaining a bug tracker is a lot easier than maintaining any
> of the others - and if we ask people to put the platform and card in
> the name it will be easily searchable.  Also is there something
> trivial people can run so we can get consistent information?
>
> LetterRip
>
> On 5/16/07, Matt Ebb <matt at mke3.net> wrote:
>> I really don't think it's the tool that's the problem.
>>
>> We've had a static HTML page, a forum thread, some
>> web-database-driven-thingy that Ton mentions that didn't work out. I
>> think, even a static HTML page would work, the big issue is
>> maintenance, validation and keeping it up to date, for which we need a
>> dedicated volunteer or team. Spending weeks coding some nice PHP
>> system that's abandoned and not maintained afterwards will be a waste
>> of time, and suffer the same fate.
>>
>> On 5/16/07, Shaul Kedem <shaul.kedem at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Let's start by asking: what went wrong the first time? why did it  
>>> get too
>>> complicated to manage? I remember that try very vaguely..
>>>
>>> +if anyone knows of such a tool (open source) already in existence..  
>>> feel
>>> free to chime in..
>>>
>>>
>>> On 5/16/07, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Whatever is needed :) What do you propose to do?
>>>>
>>>> -Ton-
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 16 May, 2007, at 13:20, Shaul Kedem wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Ton,
>>>>> What kind of tools do you have for the job? linux, mysql, php, cms?
>>>>>
>>>>> thnx,
>>>>> Shaul
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 5/16/07, Ton Roosendaal < ton at blender.org> wrote: Hi all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The page on blender.org about this:
>>>>>>  http://www.blender.org/tutorials-help/graphics-cards/
>>>>>> is extremely outdated (2001).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I got a mail from nvidia they like to update their partner page  
>>>>>> with a
>>>>>> confirmation we validated Blender for their board/drivers.
>>>>>>
>>> http://www.nvidia.com/page/partner_certified_drivers.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is useful info for our users, and has marketing potential  
>>>>>> even.
>>>>>> :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A couple of years ago we had an OpenGL database on blender.org,  
>>>>>> where
>>>>>> you could give information about what worked OK and what not.
>>>>>> Unfortunately that dbase wasn't moderated and quickly degraded to  
>>>>>> a
>>>>>> far
>>>>>> too complex collection.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any ideas how we could tackle this? Anyone inspired to accept  
>>>>>> this as
>>>>>> a
>>>>>> project?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -Ton-
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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